Visible record tray carrier



8- 22, 1950 J. H. BRINKER 2,519,632

VISIBLE RECORD TRAY CARRIER Filed March 22, 1947 I N V EN TOR. Jomv HBf/NKEQ.

ATTORNEYS.

Patented Au 22, 1950 2,519,632 vIsInnE ma oon!) TRAY CARRIER John.ILlBrilrker, Nor-wood, Ohio, assignor to The Norwood, Ohio, atcorporation of Ohio Application March 22, 1947,.seriamo. 736,543

4 Claims. 1

This invention relates to visible record tray carriers. for use inconnection with visible record tray cabinets.

Visiblerecordsystems of various types are now on the; market in whichthe visible record trays are. .mounted in difierent ways for. readyaccess.

particular invention has to do with a. cabinet type: of visible record.system wherein the visible.

record trays aredisposed in a cabinet in the. mannor of drawers whichcanbe pulled outand tilted downward. when it is desired to examine thecards...

.Itis .an object? of; my present invention to provide carriers: forvisible record trays to which. the traysthemselves may beattached,which: carriers mayslideonrnnners in the-cabinet and may extendsout fromthe front ofthe-cabinetso that when a tray is fully withdrawn, may hangdown.

vertically clear of thefront of. the cabinet. It. is another object of.my invention to provide such carriers which are extremely simple.inconstruction: and. which can easily be: assembled. to. the cabinet anddisassembled therefrom.

It is a further object of my invention. to provideca hanger for the:tray by means. of which thetray may be suspended from the carriers-andtoprovide means. whereby the tray may quickly and. easily be removedfrom. the carriers but whereby the tray cannot-be accidentally removedfrom the carriers.

These and various-other objects of .my inven tion which. will be.pointed out more in. detail hereinafter or which. will appear to.oneskilled. in the. art upon reading these specifications, ac-

complish by that certain construction and arrangement of. parts of whichIshallnow describe the exemplary embodiment.

Reference ismade to the drawings forming a part hereof and .in which:

.Fig. 1 is. a front elevational view oil acabin-et with; one of. the.trays withdrawn and hanging down vertically.

Fig. 2 is across sectional View of. the same. taken on a'linef2-2 ofFig. 1.

3. is a fragmentary perspective view showing a corner of the cabinet andshowing how the carriers and tray .cooperatetherewith.

Fig. 4. is. a plan view of a, blank from which. one of thecarriersismade:

Fig.5 is a cross sectional view on. an enlarged scale taken onlin-e 5- 5of.Eig,.3.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective-of one of the vertical front framemembers.

Briefly in. the practice of my invention I provideeacabinet having aseries of: runners therein on both sides.

Pairs of carriers are provided which are adapted to ride on the runners.These carriers have sliding movement from front. to back the entirelength. of the cabinet, and stop means are provided so that-at theirextremeforward position they extend somewhat beyond. the front face ofthe cabinet. The. visible record trays are provided with hangers, which.engage pairs of the carriers and have movement withrespectto the.carriers.

Reierring more. particularly .to the. drawings, a cabinet of.conventional design is indicated at .IB' and is provided with .a-number.of. visible. record.

tray spaces, indicated generally at i.l'.. The.

spaces .LI are constituted by pairs of runners in.- dicated, generallyat I2, which. are secured to frame members l3 in the cabinet. Therunners are generally Z-shaped in cross section and the frame members l3are slotted at 'interval'aasindicated at l4!v to accept the flanges L5voifthe. various runners, The runners themselves are identical, exceptfor. thefact that. there arerights and. lefts. for the two sides of thecabinet. .Inthe portion 16 of. the runners, there are provided raised.buttons H, which serve. a purpose, which will be described hereinafter.Likewise in. they portion it of each runner, there isv provided. aspring element I 8, which may lac-accomplished by the cutting of a.U-shaped slot 49 and thenstrik ing up the element l8 therefrom, so thatit projects above the plane of the portion 1.6.

functionof thezelement will be describedhe after. there. is provided acut-out portion 2i! in the Ver tical. limb 21- of the runner, and.theqflange 1:5 is" cut away from the opening 20 as .indicatedat '22 Thefunction-of this structure will be clear asthe description proceeds.

The carriers: themselves will now be described in detail. These carriersare provided in rights.

and. lefts and: each: pair ofcarr'iers, except for the reversal ofposition, is identical in most re spect's, and may be made from a blankindicated generally in Fig. 4, which blank is generally rec- .tangu'larin configuration and. is provided with a notcl'rzfi, abeveled portion24, a U-shapedslot 25', an indentation 2 .6, .a stiffenin rib; 27,

3e, 31;. and. 3'2 to ere'ctit to the form pivotal longitudinal.

.ei-n-- Also, adjacent the front of each runner,.-

anlilaxlong slot 28.. This blank will be bent .on' the lines :29, shownin cross section in Fig. 5. The 'portion withinthe at 35. in Fig. 5engaging The portion 36 is bent up at a right angle on the line 31a toprovide a stop for the hanger as will be described in more detailhereinafter. In both the right and left hanger, there will be a slotcommunicating with the slot 28, but the slot indicated at 31 in Fig. 4is the slot for the right hand carrier. The slot for the left handcarrier will not extend beyond the bend line 30, so that the left handcarrier will have only a vertically partial slot communicating with theslot 28, whereas the right hand carrier will have communicated with thevertical slot, a horizontal lot disposed at an angle, as best seen inFig. 3.

The carriers are assembled to the runners by placing them on the runnersin a position where the arm 35 is opposite the cut out portion 25. Thecarrier can then be pushed homewith the portion 35, passing through theopening 20 to bring the arm 35 beyond the flange l5. When the carrier isin position on the runner, it is held against vertical movement upwardby the portion l6 of the next upper runner, and its weight is supportedon its own portion l6, and it is held against lateral movement by thearm 35 extending over the flange I5. The carriers can easily be removedby sliding them toward the front of the cabinet until the portion 35 isopposite the opening 20 and then sliding them toward the center of thecabinet.

The visible record trays are indicated generally at 40 and may be of anyconventional construction, except that at their rear or upper ends, theyare provided with the rolled edge 4| embracing the hanger 42. The hanger42 is essentially a rod having a major straight portion and portionsbent upwardly therefrom as at 43 and terminal portions 44 parallel tothe major portions. The hanger is free to rotate within the rolled edge4 l.

The assembly of the hanger to the carriers is accomplished as follows:assuming that the carriers only have been assembled to the cabinet asdescribed hereinabove, and it is desired to assemble to the carriers avisible record tray having the hanger described, the two carriers arebrought toward the front end of the cabinet and the left hand portion 44of the hanger is inserted through the slot 45 of the left hand carrier,so that the portion 44 rests on the strengthening bead 2'! with theupturned portion 43 passing through the slot 28. The visible recordtrayis then rotated clockwise, as seen in Fig. 3, to the point where theright hand end 44 of the hanger can enter the angular slot 31. When theright hand portion 44 is passed through the slot 31 and the tray isstraightened out, the right hand portion 44 will rest upon the bead 21of the right hand carrier with its portion '43 passing through the slot28 of the right hand carrier. As the drawer is pushed in, the hangerwill ride along the slots 28 of the two carriers to its rearmostposition, as seen in drawer A of Fig. 2. In this position the rollededge portions 45, which are coaxial with the rolled edge portion 4!,will abut the member 36, as shown in Fig. 2. When the drawer is all theway in, the front portion of the drawer is supported on the elements ll,which extend above the plane of the member iii, an amount equal to thethickness of the bottom of the carrier.

When the drawer is pulled out, the hanger first rides along the slots 28to the front to the position'shown in drawer B in Fig. 2, until thecarriers have been pulled out to the position shown with drawer C inFig. 2, where they extend somewhat beyond the front face of the cabinet.In this position then the drawer 40 can hang down vertically from thecarriers. The limit of forward movement of the carriers is establishedby engagement of the arms 35 of the carriers with the edges Me of thefront corner frame members l3.

The members I8 hereinabove described bear against the underside of thecarriers to hold them slightly when the carriers are in their foremostposition.

The function of the depressions 26 can now be understood; if one visiblerecord tray has been withdrawn to the position indicated at C in Fig. 2,and it is desired to withdraw the next upper tray, when the carriercontacts the member iii to depress it, it will be depressed into thedepression 26 of the next lower carrier. Thus, the only function of thedepression 26 is to permit a drawer immediately above a fully openeddrawer to be withdrawn.

It will be noted that by virtue of the construction, the parts will notnormally or accidentally come apart, because in order to disassemble adrawer and hanger from its carriers the drawer must first be fullywithdrawn and then cooked in a clockwise direction, as seen in Fig. 3,until the slot 31 and the hanger are aligned. The right hand end of thehanger can then be raised and removed through the slot 31 and then theleft hand end can be removed through the slot 35. Likewise, the carriersthemselves cannot be removed from the runners until the drawer has beenremoved, as just described. The assembly and disassembly of the parts isvery simple and yet proof against accidental dislodgment.

It will be clear that numerous modifications may be made withoutdeparting fhom the spirit of my invention and I therefore do not intendto limit myself, except as pointed out in the' claims which follow.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Let ters Patent is:

1. In a visible record cabinet having a visible record tray providedwith a hanger, a pair of carriers arranged for sliding movement in saidcabinet and engaging said hanger, each of said carriers being ofchannel-like cross-section with one of the arms of said channelconstitutin the top of said carrier, said top arm having a return bendproviding a member parallel to said top but spaced therebelow by aspacing member, said parallel member having a slot running substantiallythe length of said carrier and said spacing member having a slotcommunicating with said first mentioned slot adjacent the front end ofsaid carrier, said hanger comprising a. rod having crank-likeconfigurations at each end, said cranklike portions passing through saidslots in said parallel members and the ends of said portions resting onsaid parallel members.

2. The structure of claim 1 in which said parallel portions are providedwith longitudinal stiffening ribs providing supporting surfaces for theends of said hanger.

3. The structure claimed in claim 1 in which one of said pair ofcarriers is provided with a slot in said top arm, the slot in said toparm being disposed at an angle less than a right angle to the axis ofsaid carrier whereby said hanger may be removed from said carriers byswinging said tray laterally until the axis of said hanger is alignedwith said angular slot, and lifting said hanger upwardly through saidangular slot.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date Rose Mar. 18, 1873 Rand Feb. 28,1922 Rand, Jr Sept. 19, 1922 Ohnstrand July 22, 1924 Pilla Apr. 26, 1927Gronberg Jan. 12, 1932 Wolters Apr. 8, 1941

